THE WITCH’S FAMILIAR: WHAT THE CAT REMEMBERED

In Episode Seven, we step into one of the oldest, strangest, most beloved mysteries in the witch’s world — the bond between a witch and her familiar. This is not a story about pets. This is a story about witnesses. Guardians. Mirrors. The beings who walk beside us not because we trained them, but because they remembered us.

Together, we explore the mythic origins of familiars across continents — from the shapeshifting guardians of the Celtic isles, to the protective house spirits of the Mediterranean, to the feline guides revered in ancient Egypt, and the animal allies honored across Indigenous traditions worldwide. We unravel where the lore converges, where it contradicts, and where it reveals the deeper truth: familiars are not “helpers.” They are agreements.

In this episode, we talk about: ✨ what a familiar is (and what it absolutely is not) ✨ the metaphysics of companionship and psychic resonance ✨ why cats stand at the threshold between worlds ✨ how familiars function as mirrors, messengers, and memory-keepers ✨ and what it means when an animal chooses you

From there, we turn our gaze skyward for this week’s Full Moon influences — a lunar moment drenched in intuition, boundary-setting, and deep listening — before returning to the hearth for Kitchen Witchery. This week’s recipe, Lavender & Vanilla Warm Rice-Milk Nightcup, is a spell disguised as comfort: a nighttime ritual for calming the nervous system, softening the psychic field, and inviting your familiar spirit (physical or otherwise) to draw near.

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt watched over… chosen… or accompanied by something that understood them long before words were possible. It is for every witch who has wondered why some animals lock eyes with them like they’re remembering an oath.

If you’ve ever felt the brush of a tail against your ankle at the exact moment a message arrives… If you’ve ever sensed a presence curling beside you in grief or ritual… If you’ve ever believed an animal knew you deeper than language…

This episode is a key.

Step into the quiet with me, weird one. The cat remembers. And tonight, so will you.

FULL MOON RITUAL: THE WATER KNOWS YOUR NAME

In Episode Six, we enter the oldest mirror on Earth — water — and ask it to tell us who we are now. This is our first Full Moon ritual of the year, a night when memory rises like a tide and the body becomes a shoreline for every story we’ve ever carried.

Together we walk through the science, the folklore, and the lived truth that water is never passive. It listens. It remembers. It responds. From the Moon’s gravitational pull to the human heartbeat, from ancient purification rites to modern trauma research, this episode traces the thread between the water around us and the water within us — and how both can become portals into healing.

We speak of the wells of Brigid, the tides of the Aegean, the rivers that shaped civilizations, and the ways our ancestors understood full moons not as “manifestation nights,” but as revelation nights — when what has settled at the bottom of the soul begins to stir.

This is a ritual episode: grounding, lunar, intimate. In Kitchen Witchery, we reconnect the body to the magic with our Moon-Steeped Sweet Potato Stew — a soft, warm, nourishing bowl designed to settle the nervous system after emotional release. It’s food as balm, food as spellwork, food as integration.

If you’ve been feeling full, heavy, overwhelmed, or quietly ready to change… If you’ve been carrying a truth in your chest that hasn’t yet found its voice… If you want a ritual that meets you where you actually are — not where the world thinks you “should” be — this episode is water, moonlight, and permission.

Come closer, weird one. Let the tide rise. The water remembers you.

(The First in the Raven’s Trick Series)

In Episode Five, we open a brand-new doorway in Raven’s Lore Cast — the first in a multi-year, multi-dimensional series called Raven’s Trick, where each installment reveals a truth hidden in plain sight, wrapped in mischief, paradox, and shadowlight. These stories don’t behave. They bend. They slip. They reorient everything you thought you knew about magic, identity, fate, and the strange architecture of your own becoming.

This opening chapter, The Trick of Time, brings us into conversation with one of humanity’s oldest illusions: that time is linear, obedient, and sensible. Raven knows better — and so do the ancestors. Across cultures, mythologies, and cosmologies, time has always been depicted as a loop, a serpent, a wheel, a spiral, a trickster’s knot we spend our whole lives trying to untangle. But what if time isn’t something that happens to you… but something you happen through?

We walk the edges of that question through the myth of Ganymede — the mortal boy taken to Olympus, suspended between immortality and memory, forever young, forever outside the clock. His story is a mirror for anyone who has ever felt out of sync with the world’s expectations: the queer, the liminal, the neurodivergent, the too-fast, the too-slow, the out-of-order, the beautifully nonlinear souls who grow the way constellations grow — suddenly, sideways, all at once.

In the celestial segment, we untangle the Aquarian sky — the Water Bearer whose myth is a trick of its own. Aquarius pours, yes… but what? Water? Time? Memory? Revolution? We explore the ancient belief that Aquarius controlled not the rains, but the release of forgotten worlds, and how midwinter has always been a season when the veil thins not just between realms, but between timelines.

In Kitchen Witchery, we bring the Trick of Time into the body with Star-Kissed Citrus & Saffron Risotto — a dish that tastes like memory returning, tradition bending, and sunlight reaching you from both the past and the future. Slow-cooked, deeply fragrant, and calibrated to remind you that good magic takes the time it takes.

If you’ve ever felt haunted by versions of yourself you haven’t lived yet — If you’ve ever sensed that your past is not behind you but beside you — If you’ve ever woken up knowing something you haven’t learned — this episode is your invitation.

Step into the trick, weird one. Time is ready to tell the truth.